North Korea fires possible ballistic missile

Posted - August 28 201705:39

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North Korea fires possible ballistic missile

The Pacific Command previously said that two of the North Korean missiles had "failed in flight". -South Korean military exercises began last Monday, North Korea vowed "merciless retaliation and unsparing punishment" against America.

North Korea has also conducted five nuclear tests, including two a year ago.

The missiles were 300-millimeter rockets fired from a multiple-tube launcher, said Yoon Young-chan, a spokesman at the Blue House, South Korea's presidential office, where the country's National Security Council met on Saturday to discuss the tests.

"We hope that this is the beginning of this signal that we've been looking for that they are ready to restrain their level of tensions, they're ready to restrain their provocative acts, and that perhaps we are seeing our pathway to sometime in the near future having some dialogue".

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Tillerson said on Tuesday he wanted to "acknowledge" that Pyongyang had not conducted missile tests since the adoption of the most recent UNSC resolution, praising Pyongyang for recent "restraint".

Tension was mounted between United States and North Korea after Pyongyong test fired Inter Continental Ballistic Missile on July 28.

In this undated photo distributed Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017, by the North Korean government, leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits the Chemical Material Institute of Academy of Defense Science at an undisclosed location in North Korea.

Development of China-South Korea relations made a positive contribution to regional peace and development, Xinhua cited Xi as saying.

The launch is the first since a nocturnal test was carried out on July 28, in which an intercontinental ballistic missile was sacked into the Sea of Japan, provoking a new round of United Nations sanctions and rebukes from the global community.

The intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 is seen during its test launch.

Pyongyang has used this intimidating tactic at a time of heightened tensions before - such is the cyclical nature of North Korean crises.

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North Korea'sreport of the visit appears to be deliberately timed, coming on the third day of the Ulchi Freedom Guardian military exercises involving South Korea and the United States, to which Pyongyang is vehemently opposed. President Trump famously promised to meet North Korea's threats of war with "fire and fury".

Recently, North Korea has committed yet another act of aggression in the face of worldwide scrutiny.

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